May 18, 2012
Here on Vancouver Island, May has to be the very best time of year in the garden, everything is bursting out of the ground & unfurling and many plants are in their full & glorious blooming stage. The fragrances in the air stop you in your tracks, just to...
May 2, 2012
A couple of weeks ago, on a sunny Saturday morning I had the pleasure of going to three plant sales, I wrote about them in the previous post and said that I would write about the third one, at Milner Gardens, later. There was so much to tell you about and so many...
Apr 24, 2012
The events I chose to attend this past weekend filled me with energy and enthusiasm. That the sun was shining, trees, shrubs & bulbs were blooming everywhere and the extra oxygen in the air were contributing factors didn’t go unnoticed but the excitement I...
Feb 5, 2012
Friends of ours stopped in for a visit one day and brought us this incredibly lovely Orchid stem ….. I had never seen one stem this full of blooms! The deep pink and burgundy looked amazing against the snowy backdrop outside…. and as I moved the orchid and...
Sep 28, 2011
Today was a fabulous reminder that after the stormy days of winter, the sun will shine again. This past Sunday and Monday were so stormy, the wind howled and the rain pelted down, huge waves crashed onto the beach and the skies were so bleak that it felt as though we...
